...with my old friend Paddy. You may know him by his Christian name, Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor. Fermor was a man of wonder and once described as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene in the New York Times.
Tag: Literature
Hunting for Relevancy: the Rise of British Sport
From the Duchess of Devonshire’s memoirs including a section on Harold Macmillan learning to shoot to the mishaps surrounding a hunting party in Mitford’s Highland Fling, I seem to have a penchant for the moorish stage on which these aristocratic endeavors are set...
Summer Readings
Languid summer hours. What is to read?
Picnics: A Performance of Leisure
It is not merely a meal. It is an art...
The many lives of Anna Karenina
There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts • Lev Tolstoj
An Exchange with Roberto Bolaño (Chile, 1953-2003) in the Mexico City Archives
A poetic exchange with Roberto Bolano
Animali ed ectoplasmi nella Buenos Aires di Roque Larraquy
When fiction meets science and politics
Divini Amori, Mortali Passioni
An enchanting exhibition in Naples that displays arts and crafts inspired by the love stories of gods, demigods and their mortal lovers
L’Automa di Paolo Ventura
A book about a man and an enchanted automaton
Pinocchio… in punta di piedi
New production of Pinocchio by the National Ballet of Canada